She thinks the specter of a long-dead pet might be responsible for the nipping at people’s feet.

All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Mettemich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.

A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism.

A specter is haunting Tatoeba— the specter of Tom.

It is high time that communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.